Kim Alpheus Maranan

• Optimized queue services (PDF scraper) from 5 minutes to 1 minute per run, significantly improving processing speed.
• Collaborated with the AI Engineer to integrate and optimize API consumption for queue servers.
• Reduced AWS costs by $500 to $1000 on a monthly bill of $4000 to $5000 through resource optimization and implementation of AWS cost-saving strategies, including discounts.
• Handled monitoring and server provisioning using Terraform for scalable and repeatable deployments.
• Deployed AWS Lambda to automate small tasks and background jobs, improving efficiency.
• Improved Jenkins usage by consolidating production and staging pipelines into a unified master Jenkins server, enhancing manageability and control.
• Implemented VPN to secure access to sensitive private resources and added MFA to strengthen application security.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced infrastructure provisioning time by 50% using Terraform automation.
• Lowered operational costs by 15% through AWS resource optimization and serverless solutions.
• Improved system reliability and security by implementing VPN and MFA across critical resources.

• Provisioned and managed new client environments efficiently using Terraform.
• Monitored and administered infrastructure for 22+ clients, ensuring uptime and stability.
• Handled ticket assessment, creation, and task allocation to streamline workflows.
• Provisioned three different projects from scratch using Terraform, including resource automation.
• Developed reusable Terraform modules for clients, such as Snapshot Cleaners, Log Monitoring, and CloudWatch Alerts integrated with Google Chat.
• Added and managed new resources under Terraform, including TGW, ECS Discovery, Aurora, and WAFv2.
• Maintained multiple Terraform projects, improving infrastructure consistency and scalability.
• Migrated CI/CD pipelines from TeamCity to Jenkins and implemented customized pipelines based on requests.
• Managed internal tools like Jenkins, Grafana, Prometheus, and TeamCity to enhance development workflows.
• Migrated on-premise servers to Contabo for cost efficiency and improved infrastructure flexibility.
• Led infrastructure setup for Instapay project, including VPN provisioning, route management on proxy servers, and internal load balancing for secure connections.
• Implemented alerting systems to send real-time notifications to Google Chat Spaces for enhanced monitoring.
• Introduced and optimized Jira Ticketing Board for internal and support requests to improve task prioritization and management.
• Enhanced DevOps sprint processes by separating request tickets and improvement tickets for better task organization.
• Managed Instapay Certificate Renewal and ongoing certificate administration for multiple clients.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced infrastructure setup time by 60% through Terraform automation and reusable modules.
• Improved incident response efficiency with automated Google Chat Alerts and proactive monitoring.
• Increased CI/CD efficiency by migrating pipelines to Jenkins and consolidating processes across teams.
• Successfully managed infrastructure for 22+ clients, achieving 99.9% uptime.

• Transitioned a monolithic hotel management SaaS to a microservices architecture, enhancing scalability and modularity.
• Migrated CI/CD pipelines from BitBucket Pipeline to CircleCI, ensuring consistent and reliable deployments.
• Optimized application response time by 10-20% through infrastructure and backend optimizations.
• Monitored and maintained pipelines for deployment success, integrating Terraform and Grafana for visibility and automation.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced deployment failure rate by 30% through enhanced monitoring and automation.
• Implemented containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes, improving deployment speed.

• Designed and implemented the AWS infrastructure for the Health Check Survey Application used by Samsung employees.
• Managed QA and development environments for enterprise-grade healthcare projects.
• Automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins and implemented monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Developed a Slack bot for automated UI test reporting, improving reporting efficiency.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced manual reporting time by 50% through Slack automation.
• Ensured 99.9% uptime for QA and production environments.